President Allen

[UNIAlum95]

Re: President Allen

Can FBS teams count an FCS game every year now or is it still every other year?

[northwest iowa panther]

Re: President Allen

Can FBS teams count an FCS game every year now or is it still every other year?

They can count them every year only if the FCS opponent gives the full 63 scholarships. If they play someone like Drake (nonscholarship) it will not count toward their bowl elgibility number of wins.

[SpanishMoon]

Re: President Allen

I think UNI may end going D II in order to survive.

[UNIAlum95]

Re: President Allen

I think UNI may end going D II in order to survive.

Wow. You just keep getting better.

[run&blade]

Re: President Allen

Two FBS games a year would solve what? Maybe making the playoffs, getting a seed, eliminating the bother of getting ready to go to an extra home game?

What do the kids like to see besides the dome, nobody cares about anything besides football and basketball? Maybe it's the intangables on campus like the energy created by the endless possibilites for the future and the diversity of college life. Please don't speak for me, thank you.

Panthers have never made the playoffs without winning the conference.

I never spoke for you, I stated my opinion on what it would mean to me and my family. Which is the points of a message board.

Drop football and it would hurt the university in a big way, talk all you want about holding hands strolling through campus singing Kumbaya but in reality game day brings more alumni and future UNI students to campus then all the other crap combined.

If UNI dropped football and men's basketball I doubt I would ever have the need/desire to step foot on campus again in my life, and I only live an hour away.

[JayJ79]

Re: President Allen

Panthers have never made the playoffs without winning the conference.

Though they HAVE made the playoffs without winning the conference auto-bid.
(last year). And I think they might have gotten an at-large in 1985 as the Gateway might not have had an auto-bid yet at that point. (not sure on that one, though).

And making the playoffs as non-autobid co-champs is the same as making the playoffs without winning the conference. (i.e. if SIU hadn't lost to NDSU last season, they would have won the conference outright. but UNI would have still made the playoffs)

[havok58]

Re: President Allen

With the way the state budgets cuts are going, it should be a requirement that Iowa and ISU play UNI every other year. If those schools are paying $750,000+ to smaller schools to play them, it would be a win-win situation to keep that money in the state and help out UNI. I believe this was brought up a number of years ago in the legislature, but never went anywhere. Now that times are different, I wonder if the Regents or legislature would reconsider that.

[run&blade]

Re: President Allen

With the way the state budgets cuts are going, it should be a requirement that Iowa and ISU play UNI every other year. If those schools are paying $750,000+ to smaller schools to play them, it would be a win-win situation to keep that money in the state and help out UNI. I believe this was brought up a number of years ago in the legislature, but never went anywhere. Now that times are different, I wonder if the Regents or legislature would reconsider that.

UNI only got $400,000 for the Iowa game. If it is true that Michigan was offering UNI $900,000 it is time for UNI to go to the highest bidder.

[JayJ79]

Re: President Allen

UNI only got $400,000 for the Iowa game. If it is true that Michigan was offering UNI $900,000 it is time for UNI to go to the highest bidder.

1) We had already signed the contract or whatever for the Iowa game before the Michigan offer ever took place.

2) Travel to Iowa City is alot cheaper than travel to Ann Arbor (bus vs. flying, and no hotel stay needed for Iowa). Sure, it's not $500,000 cheaper, but still.

[06panther10]

Re: President Allen

I think that is right. I think we would end up making about the same amount of cash, its just that Mich would have to pay us more to cover the travel costs.

[clenz]

Re: President Allen

This has been covered ad nausem. Michigan wasn't offering is 900K. In the end the money would have been right about the same as the Iowa game.


We had the contract for the Iowa game before we got the UM offer. Why hurt our playoffs chances with 2, probable, FBS losses and leave us almost no margine for error during the rest of our season

[Silent Earl]

Re: President Allen

It costs only a fraction of that extra $500K (don't know if that is accurate) for additional travel costs to Michigan.

We should take the bigger paydays. As I said before we could take another BCS game in those years we play ISU since they are only a BCS team on paper and in reality are more like a MAC team.

You guys do realize the team flys and stays in a hotel for some of our conference games right? Pretty sure we aren't spending $500K for those trips.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Re: President Allen

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I would not be surprised if UNI's charter flight trips cost about $75-100K, after taking into account the flight, the hotel, and the food. That's a major cut of the expenses. Those $500K+ paydays are few and far between for FCS folk.